Data Engineer (TS/SCI)

Company: Maxar Technologies
Location: Herndon
Posted on: May 18, 2025

Job Description:

Please review the job details below. Maxar is looking for an enthusiastic Senior Data Engineer or Senior Staff Data Engineer to join our Data Intelligence team. We are looking for someone energetic and talented to further our mission of delivering high-quality analytics solutions at Maxar. This position is hybrid with several days a week on-site with your colleagues in Herndon, VA.Your Role:The Data Intelligence team owns and maintains a variety of infrastructure, services, and analytics deliverables today. We have recently developed & deployed a new full-stack data lake house environment intended to allow for more Maxar teams to build analytics solutions. Your primary focus will be to learn our existing solutions, assist in migrating them to the data lake house, and then use your skills to develop data-pipeline best practices while helping other departments on-board their data to this new environment. This will be a time of rapid change for the Data Intelligence team, being flexible and adaptable is essential to success in this role.What you'll do day-to-day:

• Operate in a cloud-based AWS environment.
• Work and communicate with Maxar employees as well as external consultants.
• Gain exposure to one of the world's foremost repositories of geospatial data.
• Design, develop, and support scalable, reliable cloud data solutions using open-source and COTS tooling.
• Develop high-quality, resilient data pipelines and business solutions.
• Analyze and interpret data from diverse systems for reporting applications.
• Actively identify opportunities to improve our infrastructure and propose solutions to realize them.
• Collaborate with a team of skilled DevOps Engineers, Data Engineers, and Business Intelligence Developers.Minimum Requirements:
  • Must be a U. S. citizen and have an active or current TS/SCI clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, geography, or related field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree.
  • Minimum of 5 years of technical experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years' experience with SQL including complex queries, SQL tuning, CTEs.
  • Minimum of 3 years' experience with Python.
  • Demonstrated experience building & orchestrating automated, production-level data pipelines and solutions (ETL/ELT).
  • Experience with file-based data storage, including Parquet or Iceberg.
  • Experience with data catalogs (ex. Hive, AWS Glue).
  • General understanding of key AWS services (e.g. EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, lambda).
  • Experience building and/or using data APIs.
  • Experience with GitHub.
  • Experience with structured, semi-structure, and unstructured data.
  • Demonstrated history of exploring and learning new technologies quickly.Preferred Qualifications:
    • Experience with software development.
    • Experience with geospatial data.
    • Experience building data-streaming processes.
    • Experience using PostGIS.
    • Experience with any of the following: Apache-Hive, Trino, Presto, Starburst, OpenMetadata, Apache-SuperSet, Terraform, dbt, Tableau, Fivetran, Airflow.
    • Experience implementing resilient, scalable, and supportable systems in AWS.
    • Experience using a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services.
    • Experience developing multi-step ETLs including DAG creation and scheduling in tools such as Airflow.
    • Experience using containerization systems like Docker and Kubernetes.
    • Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins. In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range. The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $108,000.00 - $180,000.00 annually. For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. The date of posting can be found on Maxar's Career page at the top of each job posting.To apply, submit your application via Maxar's Career page.Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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